That Easy Hotel is very much a budget hotel any other night. No one will pay that so as you note it drives people out of the centre into the periphery. That's where transport is needed. Rainhill good 25 mins out on the train, longer on a bus. Extra provision outside of Merseyrail electrics is required. I know people who are staying in Runcorn so it needs to be co-ordinated
That sentence needs a couple of extra words, to cover the normal state of affairs. The company really is a disgrace.
To be fair, from what other posters have been saying, Merseyrail will be pulling the stops out so anyone going to the Wirral/Southport etc. will be catered for. If Network Rail manage to have the line open, it sounds like LNW will be able to cover passengers returning to Runcorn and Crewe. Northern may run something to Manchester.
I think Northern have already added in the additional services that they'll be running - all unadvertised, naturally
Excellent news.I think Northern have already added in the additional services that they'll be running - all unadvertised, naturally
Their last services will be:
00:10 to Wigan North Western
00:36 to Warrington Central
00:40 to St Helens Central
00:50 to Manchester Victoria
It looks like Merseyrail are running all Northern line services from Moorfields and all Wirral line services from Central, so it seems a degree of crowd control/management is in place.
Aren't those times too close to the likely end of the performance?I think Northern have already added in the additional services that they'll be running - all unadvertised, naturally
Their last services will be:
00:10 to Wigan North Western
00:36 to Warrington Central
00:40 to St Helens Central
00:50 to Manchester Victoria
It looks like Merseyrail are running all Northern line services from Moorfields and all Wirral line services from Central, so it seems a degree of crowd control/management is in place.
You missed out, jilly’s was a rite of passage.
Well think about it, if it were in the requirements then why did Liverpool get it? And as previously mentioned whilst it ends in Liverpool at 12am, somewhelike Baku would see a 3am finish. Which is why most people, well sensible people will not assume that there will be adequate public transport and make their own arrangements.
There are no specific ground transport requirements for Eurovision although ground transport provision is considered when assessing a city's bid and a city deemed to have an inadequate transport network is unlikely to be selected. The three key requirements a city must meet are having an International Airport (or being close to an International Airport if there isn't one within the city itself), an arena with a minimum capacity of 10,000 that could be vacated for a 6-8 week period, capability of providing a press facility to host a minimum of 1,500 journalists, and hotel accomodation for at least 2,000 spectators, delegates and journalists. All bidding cities that met the criteria, with the exception of London and Belfast, were shortlisted. The initial shortlist was Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, later narrowed down to Liverpool and Glasgow with Liverpool ultimately chosen.
This bit is absurd. That is absolutely not why they withdrew. Its because of the huge entry fee in participating.
You have the EBU criteria, so why does one have to question whether Liverpool met those. The result of the bid itself is self explanatory.
All of those rooms are in the city centre and so walking time between 1 and 45 minutes of the venue.
Interesting, but at least it is one of the factors considered.
It was a combination of factors that led to their withdrawal. It was the overall cost, including both the entry fee and accomodation which was already being advertised at excessive prices when those countries withdrew.
The EBU criteria specifies that those hotel rooms must cover a variety of budgets. If even Easy Hotel are charging in excess of £200 the city clearly isn't providing hotels that cover a variety of budgets. This is where Liverpool (or indeed most UK cities if put in the same situation) appears to fall foul, not on the total number of rooms which unquestionably does meet the criteria.
That will all depend on how much influence the government had in this on the supposedly neutral BBC. Officially it's a 50/50 decision between the BBC and the EBU, in practice it's more likely to have been a case of the BBC proposing the venue and the EBU going along with it unless they had any specific reason against the choice of city.
Yes, loads of people! It's particularly popular with younger generations, and especially the LGBT+ community.
Eurovision requires a quite big block of availability at the right time for the venue, the O2 was already booked at the time iirc. OVO Glasgow Arena had the availability as well.
I think all venues were booked for part of the time including both the Glasgow Arena and Liverpool Arena, so there was always going to be an element of rescheduling involved. The difference really was who was prepared to reschedule stuff and who wasn’t - Cardiff and Sunderland both met the hosting criteria and had bid, but weren’t willing to turf the sports teams out of their venues for the 6 weeks required hence didn’t make the shortlist, or more accurately they ‘withdrew’ immediately before the shortlist was announced.
At time of bidding, the rooms will have covered all budgets. The only place I can think of that could ensure rooms remained at the same price and did not respond to demand driven pricing is Pyongyang.
Over 160 million watched it live in 2022 (either on broadcast TV or streaming) bit of a dip as Russia and Belarus had been chucked out the EBU so that dropped the numbers. #
The 200,000 is not the expected number of visitors for the Saturday night final, it's the total number of visitors expected for the over a week of events. While some may only be there for the grand final, others will be there all week, and others will only be there for a random day during the week.
Eurovision is one of, if not the, most watched annual events on the planet. Only football world cups and summer Olympics can expect to get higher viewing figures, and they're only every four years. The US superbowl is one of the few events that appear on the same list, but is normally easily beaten. Even in the UK it often appears on the list of most watched programmes that year. So yes, lots and lots of people watch it.
They would have to leave earlier than that. It would be the 9.15pm train from Central, into Chester 22:01 for the 22:34 train to Wrexham. The only other way to do it would be 10.15pm train from Central to Chester and then connect onto the last trip on the Arriva 1 to Wrexham.
Not everybody who will attend the event drinks and therefore can drive if they wish. Merseyrail has free parking on the Chester line except for Hooton and Chester. Hooton however is very handy for people from North Wales. The car park has over 400 spaces and costs £1. It is located at the end of the A550 "The Welsh Road" from Deeside and has six trains an hour into Central Liverpool.
I agree that not everyone will get the train. The examples for train times were for information with what Rich.davies was saying. It was not a criticism.
